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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vascant" data-source="post: 2483653" data-attributes="member: 13927">I know from my own view point being very new to this side of the industry, it has become very interesting on a day by day basis.  Watching where information will get posted about your product and then seeing the effects of that.  I can say this, I was shocked over the entire initial experience, what I expected to sell in the first month or two months ended up being accomplished in the first week.    Though things are very young at RPGAttitude, there are some interesting trends already starting to form; being on ENworld news is worth a few sales everytime thus far.  From talking with people it would seem money is not even an issue, my real goal is how to not just effectively but quickly get person to understand that NPC Designer is not JB's NPC Generator (Don't laugh because I am quite serious).  The 3 main sources of NPC Generation have tainted the market to a point where people have become blinded that there can be another way to do this.  One of the key things my users state about buying habits, they are not worried about something that they can do themselves but the end results is does it save them time and is it of a quality they can trust.  PDF or Software does not matter, gaining that trust takes time and effort.  Hellhound made a good comment which lends to this, people learn to trust a product line and therefore buy it.  Teaming up has helped RPGAttitude, we cannot say if it has helped UKG Publishing yet because we are not that far along in our combined efforts.  They have d20 rules and we have a way for GM's to quickly insert them into their game.  I think over time we will be able to gain some ground on marketting but also lend to the trust factor.  For UKG Publishing, NPC Designer becomes more then a tool for their products it becomes a marketting engine not to mention their own designers now have a tool they can use to develop new material in shorter time with consistant solid results.</blockquote>

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